Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT speed figure Message-ID: <1990Jun12.193508.6465@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 12 Jun 90 19:35:08 GMT References: Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 18 In article cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > >4100 Dhrystones? ACK! That is awful. You can get that kind of >performance from a vanilla 386 clone. Indeed, Dhrystone is an awful benchmark. Depending on how you do the string copies, Dhrystone performance can vary 30% or more on a single machine between compilers. Also, given what Alan Pratt said a long time about about the TT's memory system, you can expect 50% better performance from the ram above 2 megs which doesn't have video contention. Now can we shut up about this topic until the TT is in stores? We aren't getting anywhere with all these stupid postings. -- "Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to." - Dan Bernstein